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Laurel Parmet is an American filmmaker. She made her directorial debut in 2023 with The Starling Girl starring Eliza Scanlen and Lewis Pullman.
Jun 13, 2024 · Director Laurel Parmet’s debut feature film, The Starling Girl, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival (I saw it at SXSW 2023 and just reviewed it for its May 12 release), where it secured distribution from Bleecker Street Media. It follows the story of Jem Starling, a young woman on the cusp of adulthood who lives in a patriarchal ...
Apr 4, 2023 · Below, discover Parmet’s personal ties to the film’s story, what kept the film crew going during late-night shoots, and how Sundance Institute’s artist programs helped her to develop the project.
May 12, 2023 · Filmmaker Laurel Parmet and star Eliza Scanlen know their film is about a "problematic" relationship. But that's why, they tell IndieWire, they're putting their faith in their audience.
May 10, 2023 · The Starling Girl delicately explores the gray areas of teen angst and fundamentalist guilt. Laurel Parmet on making a movie about a girl and her youth pastor that refuses easy answers. by...
May 5, 2023 · The daughter of a cinematographer and costume designer who was raised on film sets, Laurel Parmet was submerged in on-site research for a short film about rodeo when she bumped into the group,...
May 10, 2023 · An emotionally complex and sensitively told coming-of-age story, Laurel Parmet’s “The Starling Girl” explores questions of love, self-sacrifice, and agency within institutions of faith and family, even as it remains rooted in its protagonist’s gradually maturing perspective.
May 23, 2023 · Laurel Parmet made a name for herself creating short films with sensitive eye. With The Starling Girl, the writer-director dived even deeper, pulling from her own experiences in real life....
Jan 23, 2023 · Telling the story of Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen), a 17-year-old living in a Christian fundamentalist community in rural Kentucky, Laurel Parmet’s debut feature, The Starling Girl, has been years in the making, Parmet first began writing the screenplay in 2017, soon after the premiere of one of her shorts and the wrap of another.
THE STARLING GIRL. Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition. Director: Laurel Parmet. Screenwriter: Laurel Parmet. Logline: Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her...
